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The Rise of Cyber Bullying

Posted by simoniker on from the the-inevitable-cyber-wedgie dept.

santos_douglas writes "The Detroit Free Press has an article detailing the problems schoolchildren now face in the form of online cyber bullying. As if parents didn't already have enough to worry about! Examples include rumor spreading typically via text messaging, threatening emails, invasive pictures taken with camera phones, and the most extreme - creating entire websites to criticize/threaten/harass another student. The article suggests many tips for combating the problem - chief among them being the establishment of specific school policies. I suppose this is another example of an inevitable downside to the interconnected world. Mandatory Google search for your added reading pleasure."

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  1. WHAT THE FUCK?! by greymond · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How about the kids could grow some balls and learn to stand up for themselves. If someone makes a website making fun of them - you make a website making fun of them back or even better make fun of how shitty their site looks. If they annoy you on IM - BLOCK THEM. Add their email addy to a few porn sites or post it on your website and get them sent tons of spam.

    It's amazing how few parents teach their kids to defend themselves, but if someone hits you - YOU HIT BACK. If you don't you're just going to be fucked over for the rest of your life, or become a cop...

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    Ave Molech Setting
  2. Bullies should be killed. With a knife in the eye. by teamhasnoi · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Really. Just thinking about how someone can make someone else's life hell for no other reason than for the propping up of an immature personality, makes me so angry.

    I used to get picked on in school, and now 15 years later I thiink about it and laugh, but a part of me would Grand Theft Auto those motherfuckers in a second and not shed a tear.

    Sure, some may have 'grown up', but how many people that you know change that much from high school? Chances are, they're using the same techniques to bully their wives, children, co-workers, and others.

    I don't wonder at school shootings at all.

  3. electronic trail by peter303 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Web pages, phone calls, some IMs and chat rooms leave a trail to identify the culprit. Its harder to be truely anonymous online.